Shelf Help: ‘The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America’
Not the slavery you learned about in high school.
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Bleak House
Living among renters in a hotbed of evictions to try to understand this complex—and mostly unknown—driver of poverty.
Shelf Help: ‘The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation’
A look at the powerful forces dividing America's third-largest city into different worlds.
Silicon Valley Outsiders
Our focus on C-suite executives and venture capital-funded unicorns distracts from the underclass that keeps the San Francisco Bay Area running.
Shelf Help: ‘The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome’
Can genetic tests restore lost legacies?
Shelf Help: ‘Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories’
Conspiracy thinking represents a heightening of cognitive tendencies shared by almost everyone.
Brown as Dirt
How the language of racism is related to the language of cleanliness—even to this day.
Shelf Help: ‘Why Does the Other Line Always Move Faster? The Myths and Misery, Secrets and Psychology of Waiting in Line’
A lens for examining one of life's biggest questions.
